Catie Curtis

Catie Curtis (born 22 May 1965) is an American singer-songwriter. She is a folk rock singer. Her most recent album recording, The Raft, was released in 2020.

Career

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Curtis lived in Saco, Maine. When she was fifteen she was playing drums for a local theater company and in her late teens worked with Foreigner on a performance of "I Want to Know What Love Is". She graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island with a degree in history. Then she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she began working as a folk rock artist .

Curtis self-released the cassette-only Dandelion in 1989;[1] her first CD, From Years to Hours, in 1991;[2] and her second CD, Truth from Lies, in 1995.[1] Her 1997 follow-up, Catie Curtis, was named Album of the Year at that year's Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards.[3] She currently has thirteen albums. Her album A Crash Course in Roses (1999) is known best.[4]

Her songs were played in Alias, Dawson's Creek, Grey's Anatomy, Felicity and Chicago Hope, as well as in several independent films. In 2005, she and Mark Erelli won the Grand Prize in the International Songwriting Competition for "People Look Around". This was a song written for Hurricane Katrina.[5]

Awards

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  • 1996 Out Song at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for "Radical" from Truth From Lies.[6]
  • 1996 Out Recording at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for "Radical" from Truth From Lies.[6]
  • 1997 Album of the Year at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for Catie Curtis.[6]
  • 1999 Out Song at the Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards for "What's The Matter" from A Crash Course in Roses.[6]
  • 2002 Song of the Year on an Indie Label at the Boston Music Awards for "Kiss that Counted".
  • 2005 Grand Prize in the International Songwriting Competition for "People Look Around" (with Mark Erelli).

Discography

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  • Dandelion (1989)
  • From Years to Hours (Hear Music, Mongoose Music, 1991)
  • Truth from Lies (Guardian Records, 1995)
  • Catie Curtis (Rykodisc, 1997)
  • A Crash Course in Roses (Rykodisc, 1999)
  • Catie Curtis Live (Rykodisc, 2000)
  • My Shirt Looks Good on You (Rykodisc, 2001)
  • Acoustic Valentine (Sam the Pug Records, 2003)
  • Dreaming in Romance Languages (Vanguard, 2004)
  • Long Night Moon (Compass Records, 2006)
  • Sweet Life (Compass Records, 2008)
  • Hello, Stranger (Compass Records, 2009)
  • Stretch Limousine on Fire (Compass Records, 2011)
  • A Catie Curtis Christmas (Catie Curtis Records, 2012)
  • Flying Dream (Catie Curtis Records, 2014)
  • While We're Here (Catie Curtis Records, 2017)
  • The Raft (Catie Curtis Records, 2020)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Catie Curtis, All Music. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Catie Curtis: From Years to Hours, Discogs. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
  3. ↑ The Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Catie Curtis: A Crash Course in Roses, All Music. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Previous Winners, International Songwriting Competition. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 JD Doyle. "The Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, The GLAMA's: Who Won? Who Were Nominated?". Queer Music Heritage. Retrieved July 10, 2022.

Other websites

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